Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy.

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Superior document:New series in NASA history
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:New series in NASA history.
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Physical Description:xx, 313 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a false dichotomy
  • The human/robot debate
  • Human spaceflight as utopia
  • Promoting the human dimension
  • Robotic spaceflight in popular culture
  • The new space race
  • Interstellar flight and the human future in space
  • Homo sapiens, transhumanism, and the postbiological universe
  • An alternative paradigm?
  • Appendix : Inadequate words.